Hi Kevin, and all <snip>
> http://www.smallbizmac.com/index.php?=entry=/Software/Scribus-in- > production-setting.txt > > If nothing else, I think this article has some usefulness because I > haven't seen anything else written in detail from a professional > production/publishing/design perspective about Scribus--most of the > commentary is from a more general/non-power-user perspective. So, it's > food for thought at the very least. I'd be interested to hear back any > comments that folks might have. A good article with points noted, given you are trying to run it on a Mac rather than in its native environment. Some notes (just imo): 1. Import of other (text) formats will happen. Various formats are planned. It would be preferable at this stage to edit in a WP and copy/paste or import into story editor/the text frame if you are doing long text streams. Any typos can be sorted out there too (until we get a spellchecker up and running). 2. The text will not move in Story editor, nor lose its formatting if you use Paragraph Styles. At this point the Story Editor does not support editing of formatted text (ie formatted in the text frames without styles). It is planned that the Story Editor will be rewritten to remove this issue and also receive Search & Replace functionality before 1.2. 3. The Colour editor is on the cards for a rewrite so you can use %s with CMYK. 4. Speed issues: 1.1.5 is much faster than 1.1.4 having had a good going over with the profiler. no doubt you have issues with the X11/Qt on Mac too on that G3 as you mentioned. 5. PDF. Even more improvements in 1.1.5 and CVS. CVS now supports various image compression methods reducing some exported documents by up to 90%. 6. Nice comments with regards to the team and development. Thanks. We really try to keep CVS stable and very usable. Even with the fast growth of Scribus we see no reason to have an unstable CVS. (Day-to-Day there might be an issue or two but we try to get bugs killed quickly). This won't change. 7. I'm not why you used 1.1.4 for this review when you say 1.1.5 was out already. 1.1.5 has: CMYK and transparency print preview Updated transparency/alpha channel code Extra colour sets Context sensitive menus Multiple columns in text frames Updated controls with inbuilt calculator for placement Tab support Text style updates Updated drawing tools Search and Replace within Text frames Text Import/Export in Story editor. Large performance improvements ...to name just a few from the release notes, which in themselves were a summary of the Changelog. The requirements for 1.1.5 didnt change from 1.1.4, apart from a decent ghostscript level for the print preview. 1.1.5 was a long development period for Scribus, 7+ weeks since 1.1.4. Expect 1.2 to be the next official and stable release and to be further than that away from now even. More tidying up, more features, more reliability and robustness. Already since 1.1.5 (14th Feb) we have closed over 30 bugs or feature requests with a few more due in in the next couple of days. I cannot stress how thankful the team is to those who use, test, break, and report bugs or missing features. It is only through mailing list, IRC and bug website submissions that we can make sure the issues people have are sorted out. Of course, articles like yours also give us a good idea of what reviewers are looking for when aiming their tests at the "real world". All the best. Craig -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20040226/8bd82ff8/attachment.pgp
